Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present Onondagas when the State purchased from them the site of the City of Syracuse in 1795. Reason for the salt: within the area of 10 sq. mi. originally purchased was all the salt in that region. The Indians apparently .had done without salt until 1654, when Jesuit Missionary Simon le Moyne discovered that a spring from which the natives would not drink, thinking evil spirits gave it its stench, was a fountain of salt brine. Once salt was the leading product of the Syracuse district. Now no salt is manufactured there, but brine from the deposits is pumped...
...Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1783, the son of an aristocratic, enormously wealthy Spanish coffee planter; In a series of violent, bloody campaigns he freed Venezuela, Colombia...
...Pedro Alejandrino, Colombia, of tuberculosis, Dec. 17, 1830. Said he: "All we have gained is independence, and we have gained it at the cost of everything else. . . . Those who have toiled for liberty in South America have plowed in the sea." Phrasemakers delight in the comparison between Simon Bolivar and George Washington. Pedantic historians deplore it, point out that Bolivar was violently emotional, often extremely cruel; that while Washington constantly urged the U. S. to avoid "entangling alliances," Bolivar was an internationalist, dreamed and wrote of a League of Nations with Panama as its Geneva. The real difference is that...
...newsgatherers the short interview on the Belgenland.∙ After it she saw him receive the warmest reception ever given by Manhattan to a scientist. Crowds and applause followed him when he went ashore to dinner with Dr. Paul Schwarz, the German consul; when he had luncheon with Adolph Simon Ochs, publisher of the New York Times; when he spoke on Zionism over the radio, when he went to the Metropolitan Opera House to hear Maria Jeritza sing Carmen; when he was escorted to City Hall by Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler to shake hands with wisecracking little...
CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING - Arthur Schnitzler - Simon & Schuster...